The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-15
THE INCOMING SENATE.
Political Complexion Represented BY
New Faces and Old
New York Herald


WASHINGTON. June 12.-The election of
Senator Chandler from New Hampshire
completes the list of Senators and Sena-
tors-elect of the Fiftieth Congress. The
roll will stand, Republicans thirty-nine.
including Mr.. Riddleberger. of Virginia.
and Democrats thirty-seven. California.
Ohio and Virginia are the only States
whose Senators are divided. This is the
closest political unity in the Senate by
States since the war. Political
differences in the last Con-
gress between Senators existed
in those from Ohio, New Jersey. Nevada.
Indianna and, at one time California,
and in the Forty eighth Congress the
divided delegations were from Califor-
mia, Indiana. Nevada, New Jersey,
Ohio and Oregon. Senators-elect Stewart,
of Nevada; Herst. of California. and Pad
dock of Nebraska, are also ex-Senators.
The members of the last House are also
Senators-elect. viz:-Mr. Hiscock. from
New York: Mr. Daniels, from Virginia,
and Mr. Reagan. from Texas.
Senator-elect Chandler has been i'm pub
lie life for over twenty years. and is the
Arthur Cabinet To be elected to the Sem
ate, Mr.. Teller. of Colorado, having serv-
ell under the last administration as Sec
retary of the Interior.
THE NEW FACES.
tt new faces will be che Democrtic
Jersey. Tennessee and West Virginia,
and the Republican Senators from Mich
igan. Minnesota and Pennsylvania. The
new Senator from Florida. Mr.. Samuel
Pasco, is not young man. He will be
fifty-three ON the 2sth inst. When he
comes to Washington he will meet a few
of his bOyhood friends whom he has not
seen for over thirty years. Among them
are DIR. Charles +. Mcdonald, superin-
tendent of the money order system of the
Post Office Department, and Naval Con-
structor Philip Hichborn, United States
Navy. now on duty in Washington. Mr..
Pasco and Mr.. Hichborn were the
only boys i'll the class who graduated at
the Charlestown High School i'm 1854.
When they entered the class At was
composed of forty pupils. 1t dwindled
down To eight girls and two boys, and
Mr.. Mcdonald was their teacher. Thus,
after an interval of over thirty-two years,
the two boys who stood up and recited
their lessons together will have an oppor-
tunity of talking over old times.
THE HAIES AND CHANDLERs.
In connection with the election of Mr..
Chandler, attention is called to the singu-
Tar coincidence Of names and official
titles which have been shared i'm by two
prominent families of Hales and Chand-
lers, and TO intermarriages which have
occurred between two Hale families and
two Chandler families, those of the same
name having no tie of blood. The wife
of ex-Secretary and Senator William T..
Chandler. of New Hampshire. is the
daughter of the late Senator John T..
Hale. of that State, while the daughter
of the late Senator and Secretary of the
Interior. Zachariah Chandler. Of Michi-
gan, is the wife of Senator Eugene Hale,
of Maine. As the wives of Senators
from adjoining States Mrs. Eugene Hale
and Mrs. William +. Chandler will meet
in Washington society next winter just
as they first met there years ago when
each was a Senator's daughter or from
States nearly half the width of our con-
tincnt apart.